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So far I have seen the following people/groups blamed for the shootings in Tuscon:

Sarah Palin

Rush Limbaugh

The Tea Party

“Uncivil” people

Fox News

Glenn Beck

Sean Hannity

Bill O’Reilly

Republicans

Conservatives

Conservative Republicans

Libertarians

Gun Nuts

10th Ammendment Supporters

Birthers

Michelle Bachman

John Boehner

Newt Gingrich

Jan Brewer

And I’m sure the list is very incomplete and will continue to have additions in the weeks and months ahead.

I’d like to point out two things. First, this kid obviously had mental illness problems. That is all over his background, including the fact that two different schools refused to let him attend without a mental exam and clearance. He apparently existed on pot, which is always a good thing to help schizophrenia (NOT!). In the past, we used to segregate those who were a threat to themselves and others from regular society in order to protect the sick person and society. However, our twisted, politically correct America now puts everybody at risk rather than possibly, maybe incarcerate 1 single person who might not be as sick as everybody else. Well, the “we don’t need asylums” people have lots of blood on their hands.

Just a wonderful post over at The American Thinker about why the left doesn’t understand conservatives, but how we do understand the “progressives”. I just wish I could write as well as this:

But we also know that when liberals look at conservatives, no such courtesy or openness of mind is extended. They don’t see considered issues, critical thought, or the faintest possibility of reason. They see white trash men waving bibles at teen brides, while a gaggle of kids groom each other for lice on a cracked linoleum floor. ‘Bitter clingers’ who mindlessly adhere to second-amendment rights so they can shoot baby possum off a tin fence on slow friday nights. The other sort of conservative invariably invokes 19th century robber barons, plutocrat industrialists swollen with loot plundered from the proletariat, abating their whipping of Dickensian child labor just long enough to polish a monocle.

The whole thing is very much worth your time. And I will swallow my jealousy and get to work on my writing skills. Which is probably another conservative thing liberals don’t get. I know I need to work harder – they just expect someone to forgive their spelling.

And John Hawkins at Right Wing News absolutely has the goods on him. The money quote is:

So, with that in mind, imagine my chagrin when I saw these comments in the New York Times last night (emphasis mine).

He added: “I believe we have to secure our borders, and I think most Americans agree with that, because it’s a matter of national security. But we must enact comprehensive immigration reform. We must make it a top agenda item if we don’t do it before, and we probably won’t, a little straight talk, as of January 2009.”

Mr. McCain asked others on the panels for suggestions about how to “better mobilize American public opinion” behind the notion of comprehensive immigration reform.

Put very simply: John McCain is a liar. He’s a man without honor, without integrity, who could not have captured the Republican nomination had he run on making comprehensive immigration a top priority of his administration. Quite frankly, this is little different from George Bush, Sr. breaking his “Read my lips, no new taxes pledge,” except that Bush’s father was at least smart enough to wait until he got elected before letting all of his supporters know that he was lying to them.

And he’s going to destroy the Republican Party – which seems to be his whole purpose ever since George W. Bush cleaned his clock in 2000. Its all personal with him.

Lemuel has a really good analysis of the Republicans in the past 20 years over at Hillbilly White Trash. The whole thing is very good, but some of my favorite parts are:

The Republican party cannot achieve majority status if its program is simply to run along behind the Democrats calling out “me too, me too – but just not quite as much”.

For far too long Republicans and “conservatives” have been mainly occupied with looking at whichever bit of socialism the Democrats are currently pushing and coming up with their own plan which goes in the same direction, but just not as far.

The Republican party has worked hard for 20 and more years to earn its coming defeat. It is my hope that the party will at long last learn its lesson and understand that it must be a conservative party. I pray that it comes to understand that the Republican tent must be large enough to hold everyone who upholds the three pillars of conservatism, social conservatism, fiscal conservatism and foreign policy conservatism. But not one square inch larger.

The trend since Reagan has been government for government’s sake – especially with the Republicans spending like drunken sailors before they got kicked out of power in 2006. Our future doesn’t look very good at this moment – either as a Party or as a Country.

I think you can just about characterize anyone’s views and outlook depending on how they respond to this statement from Bookwormroom:

America is far from perfect, but it does a better job than any society ever created at ensuring that everyone who works hard has a chance to succeed.

If you get some horrified look at the very suggestion that America is good or if you start getting hemming and hawing about the wonders of Cuba and its free medical care – in either case you know that you are dealing with someone who has been successful in America but doesn’t want anybody else to have that opportunity. Someone who hates the freedom that America represents to the world. Somebody who believes that what some twit in Germany or France thinks about our country is more important than what we ourselves believe.

Why does hard work contribute to success in America? For one thing we try to make sure everybody has the tools to succeed. Take education as an example:

The goal of the conservative is to ensure that even those who do not start out with many advantages can succeed if they work hard. For example, free public schools are a conservative invention. They are a statement that every child, no matter how poor, will have access to the basic tools of success. Granted, some schools are better than others, but the biggest difference between school isn’t funding, or materials, or the quality of teachers. The biggest difference is the students. Students in successful schools work harder than students in unsuccessful schools. They arrive at school every day, ready to work hard and learn. Compare absenteeism and drop-out rates in successful schools and unsuccessful schools and you’ll see what I mean. Even in our worst public schools, the student who works hard and tries to learn will learn and will obtain the tools necessary to succeed in life.

Now we are not talking about equality of outcome – merely equality of opportunity. It is up to the individual to take advantage of the freedom in America.

Conservatives teach to the test. Liberals teach, uh, unearned self-esteem. Conservatives reward accomplishment. Liberals reward, uh, breathing. Conservatives reward hard work. Liberals denigrate hard work. Conservatives believe you earn the right to move on to the next grade by passing the test. Liberals beliieve in social promotion and would rather eliminate the test. Conservatives don’t give a hoot about things like skin color, religion, and gender that have nothing to do with accomplishment. Liberals are obcessed with skin color, religion, gender, etc. Conservatives abhor discrimination. Liberals eagerly discriminate against white males (God help the person who by unhappy circumstance is born a poor white male in American — he has all of the handicaps that accompany poverty but lives in a society that assumes he is rich and punishes him for being white and male).

And in the end, rewarding hard work is only practical:

Conservativism is more practical than liberalism, too. Societies that reward hard work have always been more successful than societies that do not. Why? Because most people simply will not work all that hard if they see the rewards for their labor taken from them and given to someone who did not work at all. They recognize the unfairness of this at a gut level, and ultimately, rebel by not working so hard.

As real-world examples like Russia and Cuba and Maoist China have shown.

* Resist urge to urinate on the crowd. Standing above so many conservatives, I know it will be hard for you to not just unzip your fly and piss all over them, but you’ll have to try. It may seem right and natural to you do so, but it won’t go over well.

* Call for a bombing run on Berkeley until they admit the military is awesome. Conservatives would like a nice local war. Plus, if in the end we decide to pull out of Berkeley and never go back, that’s cool too.

* State that Fred Thompson will be your VP and vow not to live long. That would be awesome. I bet it would get a standing ovation at CPAC.

* Hand out free candy. Pretty self-explanatory. Conservatives will say, “McCain may be against us on many issues, but he’s the only candidate who gave me candy!”

* One word: Yubitsume. It’s a Japanese ritual of cutting off a part of your pinky finger in an act of apology. Will seem sincere.

It the Reagan Revolution is stalled in this election cycle, it is because those at the head of the movement have stopped emphasizing its personal appeal to the average American

While folks who listen to Limbaugh can proclaim their core beliefs from the rooftops, liberal “values” must be slowly indoctrinated into the mainstream. This is why liberal talk radio is such a failure. Except for their radical base, not many people can take the left-wing mantra straight up.

Whatever polls may say, the majority of the American people do not embrace higher taxes, the culture of perpetual victimhood, government intervention in their lives, the taking of innocent life, and the defeat of our military at the hands of those who would see us all dead.

The first candidate who climbs up on the rooftop with the Rush and the rest of us and shouts these things out loud will be the one who walks away with the prize this summer.